Side note: Does anybody have an effective way of blocking this stupid Admiral BS, I’ve gotten it to a point where it consistently gives me the bypass option but I’d prefer it to go away entirely
when I see this, I leave.
I’ve seen at least 1 website that actually had critical components like parts of the navigation classed as ads, so they had to almost force you to disable it to just use their site.
Imo, if you design your website in such a way where critical basic functionality is classed as ads, then you’ve built your website wrong. Basic functionality should not be capable of being classed as an ad.
I leave uBlock off by default and only turn it on for abusive sites, but I also use Vivaldi with tracker blocking enabled so I still get these popups.
It usually ends with me blocking all ads in order to block the popup asking me not to block ads.
uBlock stays on for everyone but Tubi in my house
If I ever implant myself with a chip for brain augmentation is going to be an adblock that acts directly on my neocortex. The ultimate block.
I have adblocker solely set up to block Youtube ads.
They broke the implicit contract of “Don’t make ads too intrusive and I won’t go out of my way to block your revenue”. THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD
If you’re seeing these, then you need to change your settings in Ublock Origin to enable more filters. Anti-adblock killer is the filter you want, I believe.
Also to add to this comment: as a general reminder to those not in the know, Filterlists exists. It contains useful different filterlists for different use cases, for many adblocking software (but of course Ublock origin is the best).
“Turn off your adblocker so we can make your day pop”
No thanks i dont want popup ads
Interrobang, eh? So classy.
I do feel guilty sometimes… Then I continue.
Just like I do when I watch the porn the adblocker’s help me watch…
Those messages do make me feel bad, but not bad enough to turn my ad blocker off.
I’m technically capable of blocking ads but that doesn’t mean that I am also morally entitled to access content provided to me on the condition that I will see the ads. I suppose the fact that these websites only ask me to disable my ad blocker rather than refusing me access entirely implies that they give consent for me to keep using the ad blocker, but would I really stop using it if they did refuse access but I could bypass that restriction?
Why turn on the racing mode? Everyone knows that you have to use the “packwards” gear.
If they really wanted me to whitelist them in my adblocker, they’d make the ads less onerous.
I imagine they’re targeted at the relatively technically inept majority.
Using the “bypass paywalls clean” extension gets rid of most of it. I’m using Firefox.
I’ve never seen this. Just checked ZDNet’s website and it didn’t show anything about my ad blocker.
I block ads because they are such a distraction that I can’t read, and because auctioning off arbitrary javascript to the highest bidder is just asking to be hacked. If ads were not animated, and had no external or obfuscated javascript, I might not block them.
But as is, I’d rather close the tab than enable ads.
It might have to do with the aggressiveness that I block ADs, I have ad blocking at the device and network levels. Since I also have a way to over-powered pfSense server I pretty much don’t care about all those giant dnsbl lists that have the “Performance hit warning” lmao
